Don't invite black, plus sized, diabled, LGBTQ, or any marginalized cosplayer to only speak on diversity/body positivity panels or segments. Invite us to speak on cosplay craftsmanship/making, makeup, marketing, etc. panels/segments too! We're super talented in those areas! (1/5)
Diveristy panels are great and they need to be at cons and events. It's crucial to have super marginalized cosplayers speak in such panels so that the audience can learn about what certain types of cosplayers go through and the panelists can give advice! (2/5)
But if you're only inviting us to speak on those panels or only for that segment, but pretend that we don't exist for the other aspects of cosplay (that we have skills & can educate too) then 1. that's not being a good ally & 2. You're diminishing our skills as cosplayers. (3/5)
Don't just ask for us to only speak on the diveristy/body positivity panels or just that segment, and then ignore us for cosplay craftsmanship, marketing, etc. (and especially when most of us make our cosplays and some of us even compete and won at cosplay contests). (4/5)
And no nothing happened. Stuff I noticed and wanted to say for a while! (5/5)
And to reiterate: I'm not saying that diversity panels are wrong. They are crucial. I speak at such panels all the time. All I'm saying is don't invite us to only speak at those panels. Invite us to speak at other cosplay related panels too!
I see this post have a shit ton of likes and follows, but those of you who run panels better actually get super marginalized black cosplayers to also speak on panels that aren't just the diversity ones and not just pretend to agree to be performative.
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